The Singapore Free Press, 14 July 1948

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  • 19 1 The Singapore Free Press LARGEST AFTERNOON SALE IN MALAYA i:.ii 5 SINGAPORE, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1948 VHU'h 111 CKMH
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  • 329 1 terrorists killed by police RaidonPerak jungle camp Free Press Staff Correspondent IPOH, Wednesday. and police in a sweep near Siputeh this morning, raided a Communist outpost in the jungle and killed two Chinese and wounded another. A police official said that this was the hut u? which un an £S
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  • 9 1 OCKGANG OILED IN ABOTAGE ATTEMPT I I > fw I
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  • 5 1 R.WU BACK IN AUGUST *3
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  • 196 1 Sokolovsky is still in Moscow BERLIN, Tuesday. PIE return to Berlin of Marshal Sokolovsky, Soviet Military Governor, has been postponed 'for Mmal days" because the terms of Russia's reply to tie three- power protest on the Berlin blockade has not been finally settled. Britain's Military Governor in Germany, Gen. Sir
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  • 70 1 Frre Press Staff Reporter AN 11 -year-old Chinese boy, Goh Yang Chew, was knocked down by a lorry when he ran across Buklt Timah Road at about 8 a.m. yesterday. He died three hours after being 'admitted to the General Hospital. A 50-year-old amah named Ah
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  • 99 1 Frt? Press Staff Keoorter r)UR thousand Australian sheep -the largest shipment to arrive In a single ship this year are on the Blue Funnel ship Gorgon which arrives in Singapore from Fremantle tomorr The Gorgon is also bringing 500 tons of flour. 60 tons of wheat.
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  • Article, Illustration
    33 1 Part of the strong force of police which yesterday raided a village at the junction of Changi Road and Bedok Road are seen re-assembled after the raid, in which eleven Chinese were arrested.
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  • 39 1 THE International Emergency Food Council has "substantially" increased the allocation to India of copra from Malaya for the current year. The Government of India has advised traders to negotiate increased purchases from Malaya- -A.P.
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  • 138 1 Free Press Staff Reporter A N unknown number of Chinese attacked the village of Liu Yam, about fifty miles from Kuala Lumpur, at eight o'clock last night, killing five villagers and wounding two. Three men and one woman in the village were killed and two other
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  • 29 1 Mr. J. Chifley, the Australian Premier, who arrived in London on Wednesday for talks with the British Government, left for Australia by air early this morning.
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  • 75 1 BAxNGKOK. Wednesday. HPHE Siamese Premier, PhiA bun Songkram, today expressed Siam's "deep sympathy" for the Government and people of Malaya in their fight against Communist terrorists Songkram told Reuter: "We are extremely sorry that Communist disturbances have broken out in a friendly, neighbouring country. We
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  • 44 1 A DRIVER of the Green Bus Company who drove into a ditch at the 14th mile Jurong road told the police he "was forced to do it to avoid oncoming military vehicles." The conductor and one passenger received slight injuries.
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  • 31 1 PLAIMING that India has the closest interest in Malaya's trouble, 'The Hindu' yesterday editorially asked the India Government to take measures to protect Indian interests here.
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  • 163 1 AID MAY BOOST RUBBER PRICE Free Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Tuesday. MINCING LANE is of the opinion that if the cost Gf stock-pilingr rubber is debitabJe against the British share of Marshall aid, it i s possible the United States will not be so concerned about the price a.t which
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  • 69 1 MELVYN Douglas, suave film star, says Hollywood's four most sophisticated women are: Greta Garbo, Dorothy McGuire, Myrna Loy and Katharine Hepburn. He said that "much of what passes in Hollywood for sophistication just ain't. Wisecrackers and smart alecs are not sophisticated, and with women that soes double." He
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  • 57 1 Free Press Staff Reporter THE Chinese warships. Chungking and Lingfu. left Colombo for Singapore this morning, the Free Press is officially Informed. The ships will arrive fai Singapore on July 19, but It has not yet been decided whether they will anohor in the Outer
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  • 26 1 Free Press Staff Reporter Five armed Chinese broke into a house in Synagogue Street early this morning, and rcbbed the occupants of $33.
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  • 256 1 LONDON, Tuesday. AFTER the Minister for Colonial Affairs, Lord Listowel, had said in the House of Lords today that the acting High Commissioner of the Federation was satisfied that the police had adequate forces for action, Viscount Elibank asked "If the High Commissioner is satisfied, how
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  • 46 1 SIAMESE police have raided illegal radio transmitters in an effort to smash an illicit commercial network operating between Bangkok, Singapore and Hong Kong. Two operators were arrested at one transmitter. They said the station was taking private messages for traders and commodity speculators.
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  • 45 1 Free Press Staff Reporter SEVEN persons, three Chinese and four Indians, were arrested under the Emergency Regulations yesterday. One of the Chinese was later released. This brings the total of persons arrested to 94, of whom 66 are still under d ItonUoa
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  • 206 1 Phibun orders arm von alert I BANGKG^, i n THE Siamese t:rn> r, Marsha! Fhbui\ y aleried the CO aiiii'.'d lore possible revolt bv Cum- munis: s and other d dent forces, inc.ud n*r ;a. val elements and su]v ers of the ex-I r mier, Pridi Phanomyung reported to be
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  • FEATURES.
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      615 2 BY OUR LONDON FILM REPORTER T ONDON has been shocked by news of the death of Carole Landis, for we had been looking forward vo her returning to England in September, to make another film for Mr. Dryhurst, for whom she made "Noose" a few months ago. Carole
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    • 189 2  -  HAROLD HEFFERNAN By ALTHOUGH less than a month remains in which a settlement might be reached, there is a very good chance that on August 1, when its present contract [expires, the Screen 'Actors' Guild will go on Strike. If so. almost everycne in Hollywood agrees that all
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    • 470 2  - HOW THEY BECAME STARS JACK QUIGG. By lIOW do movie stars become movie stars? There are as many answers to that question as there are faces on celluloid. Each glamour-dipped film figure was once a Associated Press Correspondent common mortal, on the outside looking in. Some slipped in by ordinary
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    • Article, Illustration
      369 2 WEST opened the diamond jack. Norths king won and declarer promptly led a club, finessing hi* nine West took the queen to continue the diamonds South won. cashed th<- club ace and diamond queen- then crossed to dummy s heart queen to collett two more high clut* East
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    • 244 2  -  ELIZABETH LEE By r -NIGHT, over Radio Malaya at BJSO. w e shall continue with th« Quickstep, and the figure I am going to teach is the Progressive (hasse. which is illustrated step by step below. The Progressive t hasse consists of five steps, and is danced after
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    • Article, Illustration
      104 2 BY OUR FILM REPORTER ||OLLYW<m>I) answ vvi'd the call to battle. Leading producers then statement t<> ti. trade journal Vaii urge that U.S. filnu cut off from M Arthur Rank's cina in Britain. The < a% that on^y i n( i» cinemas and circi. side the Rank should
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  • Page 2 Miscellaneous
    • 696 2 QfWCAPORF (Interlude; 12 45 News in Malay; 155 Programme Summary; 600 juiunrunL 6 Progranune summary; «05 Re- Station Opening- 602 Thirty to FnM» iz«t aooe fi tf p.m. i^iom Hour; 630 Musical Inter- One; 630 World and Home News; «M metres in t»« medhun wave i ude; 645 world Affairs;
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    • 182 2 YOUR LUCKY STAR |>ORN today, you are a 19 natural leader and h*ve a great variety of talents whuh may make it difficult for you to settle down to the simple, mc.ndane. routinr things of life Ifou expect plans to turn out, well at the Hick of your wrist and
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  • NEWS...
    • 95 3 Starshall Aid agreement picture. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin (second from shares a joke with the United States Ambassador to Great Britain, Mr. Lewis Douglas, as they signed the bilateral agreement under which Great Britain will receive aid under the Marshall Plan. Also present at the Foreign Office signing
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    • 475 3 FEW COLONIES AGREE TO US. AID Cynical grins for Sir Stafford ALINE by line account of the complicated Marshall aid 13-page agreement, which is based on conditions laid down by the American Congress, was given to the House of Commons the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, writes a
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    • 184 3 Ip '.mister. Mr. John Strachey, mmona has to abolish bread 3 1 2 lbs. a week— "at the adding "I trust and hope I: I be long delayed." -j Mr. Strachey disclosed that the Government was 470 million sterling lt in subsidies to keep the od
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    • 229 3 ILMFTEEN hundred men at the Caterham Guards pot, Surrey, are taking about a "ghost" in the quartermaster's storIt is said that the 'ghost" made soap move round the shelves. Droduced a .shower of Is, caused a poker to fall and spilled cleaning material over
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    • 90 3 THE Secretary lor War, Mr. 1 Emmanuel Shinwell, former chairman of the Labour Party, said that the party was determined to continue socialisation of Britain. "We oould take the easy way of resting on our. but that would bfen complete departure from our principles." he
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    • 71 3 *>VHIRTY three year old 1 Gregory Russell had trouble with his false teeth and ended in a Bow street court The teeth— lo,os2 of them were imported from America originally and were valued at $13,000. They were alleged by witnesses to have been stolen, and Russell
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    • 48 3 CANADA can look forward to the day when the King and Queen will live in Ottawa "for a part of each year," the Prime Minister Mr. Mackenzie King tDld the Canadian Parliament. He said £600-0-000 will be voted this year to improve the capital.
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    • 83 3 pRITAIN has won out on at least two of the disputed u clauses in her Marshall aid agreement. Almost all the 16 nations have agreed to give "most-favoured-nation" trade treatment to U.S., Japan, Korea, and Germany. Britain is bound to favour only Germany. The Currency clause
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    • 40 3 UK COMMITMENT S ANSWERING a question In the House of Common.; the Foreign Under-Secret ary Mr. Chri> Mayhew to ve any undertaking that Britain would make no further military commitments until Parliament had a chance to discuss any such proposals.
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    • 107 3 IN a desperate effort to bring down commodity prices, control organs in Shanghai have begun dumping large quantities of cotton yarn and t xtiles and other goods Into the markets. It is hoped by this measure to call in some five million million Chinese dollars
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    • 285 3 A Portsmouth doctor nas written to Lancet, the leading British medical journal, that maeic charms can still cure warts. Dr. W S. Inmao cited facts such as: A boy of 12 had one hand covered with 50 warts. He tried chemicals without success. The
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    • 119 3 BRITAIN'S giant new Brabazon I airliner, a 110-ton plane intended for the Lon-don-New York flight, may make its first flight within five month* The Brabazon I, now under construction at Bristol, Somerset, was conceived during the war ax a result of the work
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    • 41 3 g.g..g Aerial view of the twisted wreckage of a train which crashed down a 25-foot embankment near Harden, 237 miles from Sydney. Australia. Four people, in the front carriage, were killed, 19 others injured -A.P
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    • 296 3 THE economic crisis in China Ls causing a reverse 1 trend in the smuggling trade in Canton causing an exodus of labourers to Hong K«u The smuggling of rice out of the Caiuon an a i> increasing. It had shown a marked decrease in
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    • 90 3 AFTER a 14-year absence from his homeland. Sabu is returning to India to film his own production. Sabu. who left India at nine, has big plans for a jungle picture on his own book and will shoot wild animal scenes north of NewDelhi. "We will adapt
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  • Page 3 Miscellaneous
    • 78 3 TARZAN Understanding By Edgar Rice Burroughs "Awkr MAI& yo TANTOR'*AS I l^^^» *>** >:*^ A">. W/A*— r=— I I WTTH OAN6ER FROm THE STAMPEDE T^ii7«r*fP LT^ V^k^ AVERTED TAJ?Z AN TURNED THEBEAST ri^»- B^*^ t' iflAC*^ Q Jt". TOVMMJRICK.»rD LIKE < *is rr possible lieutenant that the animals understand^^^JJUJßß pWni
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  • LEADER..
    • 368 4 The Singapore Free Press WEDNESDAY. July 14. 1948. Mr. Calwell Again Australia's Minister of Immigration simply cannot leave bad alone. In a new ement on the colour bar he has repeated ail the boleths and most Of the prevarications, right down to echoing Dr. Evatt's lsserl that criticism in Asia
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    • 325 4 GUNS announced the answer to Count Bernadotte's rlnal appeal to Arabs and Jews to extend the truce in Palestine for another ten days. Fighting is now in progress again at almost every point where Arab and Jewish armies were in contact when the truce began, and
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    • 1099 4 Don Iddon's Diary NEW YORK:THE A mericans would like the Russians to know that the newest look now on display at the political fashion shows here is ultra-internationalist Reading the news from Berlin and Prague, they fear that the Soviet did not learn the Philadelphia lesson well, if it learned
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    • 325 4  -  K. C. WONG. What People Sny 1 WRITE in support of •Pro Bono Publico" whose letter appeared in your correspondence columns. I, too, have been stung, My son who will be eight next January is not guaranted a place in any of the English schools in th«
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    • 1137 4  - What Van Mook thinks... and says... ANDREW ROTH By by Andrew Roth a well-known American journalist IN all probability an Interim Government of the United States of Indonesia without Republican participation will be set up by the Dutch in August. If the Republic wishes to join it will have to
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    • 15 4  - To Berlin COURTENANT yg,,,v I j I t'S V'fl i 11 j i tisr ..i
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  • LOCAL NEWS.
    • 324 5 Sensible ideas at long last' n Free Pre9s Staff tepxter JJIbCUSSING the proposed revival of the Singapore Volunteer Corps in an interview with the Free Press, Mr. Yap Pheng Geek, former Officer Commanding, Chinese Company, and now a member of the committee advising the Government
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    • 173 5 Independence her obsession, court told UNDER cross examination by Mr. Kenneth Seth yesterday in the Singapore Supreme Court, in her divorce petition against Mr. A. J. Braga, the Singapore lawyer, Mrs. Mona Patricia Braga said that even after she had returned to Singapore from India last year, her husband had
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    • 108 5 jN the Legislative Council yesterday, the acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. Andrew Gilmour, said that officers in the public service will in general receive a better deal under the new increment-for-increment conversion table. Moving the motion standing in his name for granting increments in the new
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    • 29 5 picture rs nmm§ tnwmmn armed the Borneo Company had. nsolidated mine at Malayan AirMcClav deft), wife of her daughter, Miss M Black on their arrival at rress
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    • 75 5 L jLv hkiiiv loopholes'* in the old End:'- :e "great delay" in printing, ijfiiificultie- t the new set-up were given Lmbs for most motorists not having received Kpftrol coupon^ yet at in the Legislative :*g Colonial Secretary. rnng to the loopholes, petrol rationing to motori been
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    • 204 5 Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANG. Tuesday. POR hoiding up a pig -rearer at the point of a dagger, Chinese will go to prison for five years and receive six strokes of the rattan each. This was the sentence passed by the Assize judge (Mr. A J
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    • 5 5 COMMISSIONS IN M.R.R.V.R. ft? Sub-
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    • 560 5 OPTION ON INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT rpHE option of paying tax on 1947 or 1948 incomes is now given to Singaporeans, as a result of amendments to the Income Tax Ordinance adopted by the Legislative Council yesterday. Planters and miners are excluded from this, and they will be assessed on 1947
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    • 110 5 THE Singapore Legislative Council observed a brief silence to the memory of the former High Commissioner of the Federation, Sir Edward Gent, at a meeting yesterday. The tragic death of Sir Edward came at a sad period of the history of Malaya, said the Governor (Sir
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    • 117 5 Women Told: 'Control Your Temper' Free Press Staff Correspondent PENANG, Tues. "VOUNG women must learn 1 to control their temper and not make a spectacle of themselves in public This was the advice given by the third Magistrate (Mr. J. P. Blackledge,) to two Chinese women, Khoo Beng Choo and
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    • 98 5 IMPORTS into Australia from Malaya are In* creasing. In April, total imports amounted to £307,--000 (Australian) making a total of £3,127,000 for the 10 months up to that month. Exports to Malaya for the month of April were valued at £1.290 000 making a total of
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    • 143 5 Free Press Staff Reporter A RMS and ammunition seia- ed by the Singapore Police during June included 14 revolvers, six pistols, one rifle, one shotgun, one machine gun, 706 rounds of ammunition, nine hand grenades, one land mine and 20 Lewis gun magazines. Fifteen persons were arrested
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    • 489 5 Income tax assessors get equal pay AMONG many important recommendations made by the Joint Committee on Salaries is one accepting the view of the Comptroller-General of Income Tax "that there is no good reason for differential on between the status of Assessment Officers, Ind n Assessment Officers and Chinese Assessment
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    • 71 5 AN official Dutch survey n says that native rubber production in Sumarra is now about two thirds of pre-war, and an increase depends mainly on rice prices. As lon* as riot prices main high, the population is more than interest rd \m growing rice than
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    • 43 5 THE Singapore Malay Teachers Union yesterday petitioned the Legislative Council for an increase in salaries. The petition states that the initial basic pay for normal class English teachers is $200; initial basic pay for graduated Malay teachers is $80.
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  • NEWS..
    • 68 6 With a smile, an aued immigrant descends the gangway of the Israelite ship. s£. Pan York, at Haifa. He has had his first look at the Promised Land. He was one of 2,250 immigrants coming from British-controlled detention camps in Cyprus. Camps in Cyprus
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    • 219 6 U.S. Navy 'ready for war' 'MED' FLEET MOVES fpHE I nited States' Navy's powerful Mediterranean fleet is kept on the move to back up American foreign policies in that troubled area, Vice-Chief of Naval Operations said in a speech at New York. "In the event of war with a European
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    • 62 6 PRIEST KILLED IN MANCHURIA A report ham bees n at the Vatican of the killing somewhere in Manchuria of Father Alfred Marie Caubrkre of the Paris Senu- nary for Foreign Missions. Vatican sources also state that refugees from Manchuria rt aching Peiping say that 20 other priests, nuns and brothers,
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    • 31 6 The Canadian railway unions rejected the Government's latest proposals for a settlement of the wage dispute which threatens to to a strike of 122.000 Canadian railway workers on Thursday.
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    • 471 6 GLUBB ON THE JEWISH TRAGEDY' Victim of 'muddle headed idealism DKIGADIER Glubb Pasha, British Commander of D the Transjordan Arab Legion fighting the Jews in the Palestine war, reveals his personal views on the Palestine trouble for the first time in his new book entitled "The Story of The Arab
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    • 111 6 A fervent embrace from King Abdullah of Transjor dan (left) for King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia marks the end of a 25 -year feud. King Abdullah, who was visiting Riyadh as part of a series of State calls he made on Middle East neighbours, has
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    • 336 6 'INSIDE STORY OFDUCE'S FALL WRITING on the events preceding the downfall or Mussolini, Attilio Tamaro a former diplomat emphatically insists that the Kings decision to overthrow Mussolini daU'd back long before the famous meetingr of the Fascist Grand Council on July 24. Bfl QUOfc ;i l< -Ueged to hav t
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    • 375 6 f AN AD A is taking steps to curb sex crimes and juvenile delinquency. Two such crimes in Toronto led to requests for government action and as a result, the Criminal Code is being amend< < permit the detention of sex criminals m they
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    • 162 6 THE KISS AS SCIENCE SEES IT THIS is what happen* when you kiss a pretty girl according to Dr L. Earle Arnow. a biochemist speaking at the American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago:— Pituitary gland at bate of brain manufactures adrenocorticotrophic harmone. Adrenal qland is stimulated. White blood cells break
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    • 30 6 More than two-thirds of the 1,200.000 non-Muslims In the Pakistan province of Sind have been evacuated to India. Most of the Hindus staying la Sind axe outcastes.
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    • 68 6 Brita n cuts car prices I price group ed by £235 an^ trali a 287 A less thi ugland One distributor said the price reduction suit of the drive by B manufacturers for < mark 'The drive is mainly to the A: he said Austin scoring on the roundabv this
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    • 35 6 A hiph military ce.. Batavia ha^ convicted A K Yuguf of kidnapping S Sjahrir in the abortii tempt In 1946 to overthrow the Indonesian R Government He was tenced to four years AP
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    • 13 6 it's the buye who gets prof in Shang I barge the smm I
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  • Page 6 Miscellaneous
    • 83 6 JANE Exclusive to the Singapore Free Press in Malaya T2~ ju,^ m~*/*~ fwERE DETAINING FORELOCK f\ THINK -ACH.'-ThAT PRIVILEGE I T=f l'o BETTER CHAWGe"S Me /text mOHUAg J UH TIL A CHARGE IS BROUGHT BELONGS 15 VbU, JANE-J^^s| INTO SOMETHING MORE Jl i/Z/ie 4/ICZ AGAINST H»M BUT MEAWWHILeJ ALTHOUGH I
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    • 66 6 fl^l PKRFORMAN( K> m I il/ J 11 A.M.. 1.45. 415.§ H UAV ZM THF HOI <» I <>K < OMFORI LAST DAY\ SONNY TUfTS AN' 81-i™ -SWELL GUT! THRILLING AM) AR^" N< »»B^^ GALA PREMIERE 93 °J u1 iMfijiiaitr i WMTT* JOHJ^ who4« worMMppyl A fll j f THE
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  • sports.
    • 535 7 FOLLW VAN BREUKLEN AND FOX Dear given as certainty By CALL BOY lIORSES from the stables of trainers Fox and van Breukeien are likely to get the strongest support at Bukit Timah today, second day of the Singapore Turf Club's Summer meeting. The going was good at wiis morning's trials
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    • 362 7 lL ther H .i> unkind to County cricket in the P-jj. {1 matches which finished yesterday. I2wut the three days rain interfered Ehwith play and thunderstorms caused the E it Nottingham and Coventry to be abanJ^jt^, <>n being reached on the first games definite results
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    • 63 7 Outschoorn scores 100 not out SINGAPORE cricketer Laddie Outscoorn, who was awarded his County cap last week, celebrated the honour by scoring his maiden century for Worcester yesterday. Outschoorn's attractive batting enabled Worcester to set within sight of victory, but the clock just beat them. Outschoorn himself had a thrilling
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    • 461 7 Australians retain the Ashes From Bill Bowes f PHE third English-Australia Test match at Manchester ended in a draw yesterdaj Bad weather robbed En«lA:id of an excellent chance of v ctory and yet another game is add*d to the long list of drawn EnglandAustralia fixtures Ok! Trafford. It is 43
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    • 138 7 AN interesting com;* Ution was held on th« Nee Soon rifle range on Sunday. July 4 Lt Col V D. Miller, the U.S Army liaison officer in Singapore. presenVd a challenge cup to b* competed for on a day as near as oossible to American
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    • 98 7 AN unruly crowd of urchins, who thronged around both sides of the IXvons' goal and encroached on the field, contributed largely to tho Devon*' defeat by two goals to nil by the Indian Association in a second division league soccer game on the padang yesterday. Mil^s,
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    • 97 7 ENGLANI>— Ist. Inns. 363 U^IRAIIA— Ist. Inns. 221 ENGLAND 2nd. Inns. VVishhrook not out B.> Fmmrtt c Tallon b Lindwall 0 Edrich run out 53 Compton c Miller b Tosha<-k 0 Crapp not out Extra* 1" Total (for 3 wkt«. deci.) 174 Al STIMI I A— 2nd. Inns.
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    • 204 7 CALL BOY TRESPASSER EPSOM JEEP POINTER Mt^ gggj B 2! NERVA MINERVA SWEET MEMORY FENTON RACE 1 Sweet Memory Sweet Memory Lady Ethel "Sweet Memory SWEET MEMORY Fenton Harvest Moon Harvest Moon Campanile CAROLINA NORTON CAROLINA COLD W.tM: RACE 2 Norton Carolina Norton Norton NORTON Bon
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    • 1022 7 Race 1—2.00: Horses Class 3, Qiv. 6—l Mile 020 Sir Keith Turner 9. D0 "Mrs. Dixie" Martin 133 Campanile Lawler 8.12 Mr. A. Donald Fox 000 Sweet Memory Woods 8 00 "Mr. Kwik'' Fox -00 Arizona Dawson 8.07 "Trubred Stable" Spencer 000 El-Alamein Jeffers 8.37 Ms. R. M.
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    • 437 7 Olympic rules look* like becoming about 60 per cent. Bale kmarketeers who ma\ bought up large block.*may find thLs to have been a most unprofitable business. Meanwhile, preparation* staging of the Games are going on space. Today the first tons of surfacing for
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    • 105 7 A FTKR gAing an account cf th m first half and leading by clear goals. RAF faded out n the secern and let the Tigers So draw leva! with them i: div.sion l< a«u<- ioooar n> Jalan Besar stadium Th< d play lor a gr<
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    • 58 7 Th« H;-.; I Partv t-am to play a tri :.cy agaiixst Oriental B P. on Sn p Happilads' courts wi'l b^ chosen from th' followini C 1 w Yew Seng. Tan Liang Pene C a Leong Kok. Rayxror Valentine Ortega. Chn T.-ai F Am. -la. Tan
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    • 109 8 BID TO CROSS ATLANTIC IN SMALL BOAT ISLE OF LEWIS (Scotland) Tuesday. rpWENTY-NINE Estonian 1 men m and children. n Soviet rule, are preparing their small cabin for a North Atlanrossin? to Canada The group includes 12 men. ten women and seven children. the youngest of whom is four s
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    • 30 8 The official Yugoslav news agency 'Tan jug' reports a purge of the Communist Party este last night following a "crisis" resulting from Marshal Tito's dispute with the Cominform.
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    • 39 8 WILSON— To Kathleen wife oi Gordon Wilson, on 13th July. 1948 at Kuala Lumpur, a boy. both irell. GREIG— On July 13th. at Kandang Kerbau Hospital, to i. wife of A L M Oreig, a son Both well
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    • 28 8 This U to announce that the marriage between Mr. Sung Kunc H&iang and Mi&a LJm Ah Pong to to take place at No. 33 Lincoln Rd. to-da>
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    • 486 8 UNO may use armed force NEW YORK, Tuesday. T»HE United States today demanded that the Security Council of the United Nations order an immediate "cease fire" in Palestine. The resolution provides for use of United Nations force if the Arabs or Jews fail to comply. The
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    • 108 8 TCKIO, Tuesday. CEVERAL Japanese are being sought by the police, to account for the fortunes they have made on the biackmarket. One of them is estimated to have netted 20 million yen last year, dealing illegally in rubber from Malaya and N.E.I. The
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    • 113 8 LONDON. Tuesday THK Evening Standard re- ports that dollars are not I good enough for King Ibn Saud of Arabia, who has demanded that his oil royalties shall be paid in gold sovereigns. The American oil company RMd has had to go Into the free gold
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    • 35 8 Animal sacrifices in Hindu temples have been forbidden in Mysore State under a law passed In the Legislature. The Act also forbids sacri- flees before temple cars and in procession before the deity
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    • 298 8 appreciably stronger from the iourweek "cease fire" in Palestine, the Israel army, by hurling augmented tank, artillery and air forces into the fight, appear now to have seized the initiative from the attacking Arab armies. A Jewish military spokesman said in Tel Aviv yesterday that, while
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    • 130 8 UK's record exports during June LONDON. Tuesday. THE President of the Board ot Trade. Mr. Harold Wilson, announced today that the provisional figure for the value of British exports in June was £134,000 000 over £4.G0n,000 above the May figure. Both months contained 25 working days. "We have once again
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      30 8 Patriarch Justinian, newlyelected head of the Rumanian Orthodox Church, walks at the head of church dignitaries to the Church of St. Spiridon. in Bucharest, for the solemnisation of his installation.
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    • 82 8 SHANGHAI. Tuesday. THE Nationalists hav e scored a victory in Central Shansi, smashing a two-way Communist offensive on the provincial capital. Taiyuan. Supported by planes, Government forces defeated a Communist concentration about 30 miles south of Taiyuan. Five thousand casualties are said to have been inflicted on
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    • 62 8 NEW FAR EAST POLIO THREAT AMERICAN occupation nedl- cal authorities at Tokio have warned against ,x>lio. which has struck in 'scattered areas throughout the Far East Command." It warned that during July. August and September DJliomylitls "may very well becomone of the most threatening communicable diseu.M Since June 1. eteht
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    • 111 8 HWE Soviet official newspaper Taegliche Rundschau, in x a satirical article on the Berlin crisis, yesterday stated: "The biggest gift for the starving Berliners is expected to arrive from India shortly. It consists of several shiploads of Bibles, which the British distributed there during the last
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    • 209 8 FRENCH STRIKE MA Y END SOON PARIS, Tuesday. OOPE rose in Paris tonight that the 70.000 French civil servant! whose strike has paralysed Government departments would return to work after a reported Cabinet concession. An announcement that a delegation of airport strikers would be received at the Transport Ministry strengthened
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    • 42 8 OTTAWA. Tuesday. rIE Trade Minister. Mr. C. Howe, announced today that the Canadian Government is developing a new uranium field in northern Saskatchewan, which he called the "most promising" find of its kind since the war.- A.P.
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    • 71 8 UAURICE Barnett's wjd---111 time experience as a bomb disposal officer came in handy yesterday- He had to "defuse" a salmon. The 23 pound fish turned up at Barnett s shop he is a taxidermist with two cannon shells in its stomach. One had been fired but the
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    • 91 8 LONDON. Tuesday. THE conflict between Tito and the Cominform is dissolving into a number of local feuds including: An Albanian -Yugoslav dispute on the future of their economic and political relations; Yugoslav-Hungarian dispute on the Yugoslav minority in Hungary; Three-cornered Yugoslav Bulgarian-Albanian conflict over
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    • 80 8 THE Belgian Senate has agreed to consider a bill which, if accepted, would end the Regency by bringing exiled King Leopold 111 to the throne. Catholic Senators and Communists voted together that consideration should be given to the bill, while the Socialists voted against it
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    • 29 8 United Press and Twentieth Century Pox Film Cor- poration have established a j television news service. Fox Movietone News will document United Press dispatches with motion pictures.
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    • 437 8 London Stock Exchange LONDON, Tuesd.: A FEATURE of the London Sto< k I \(hange t< was the sharp rise in Austrian and Saarbru< bonds, says Reuter's financial correspondent. I where, there was a slightly better tendon > late. Rubbers advanced while Tins declined The 4» 2
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    • 125 8 1 A SPECIAL Market eonrspondent rivrs the prices of rubber at 11 am today ac follow*: Tone of market: Quirt SINGAPORE CHAMBER OP COMMERCE Th« Singapore Chamber Commerce Robber Asaociatiati's prices, yesterday, were in ceats per Ib Bayers Setters. Cta. Cm. No. 1 R.S.S. Spot loose nominal 4:4
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    • 83 8 QN the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, rail* fea- tured in late declines, bringing the group aveftage to further new high lewl for 1948 Baei where there was liuie change from noon levels Rails finished mixed to US $1 while other sections showed onbalance declines covering U.6.
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    • 52 8 L>. I iISH ol :iat the meeting n an* place between Mr George Zarubin Russian Ambassador to Britain, and Mr Harold Wilson. President of the British Board of Trade in London will lead to the immediate op nine of fullscale talks in London on a lonctenn trade
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    • 61 8 PANAMA HAS 2 PRESIDENTS PANAMA yesterday had two Presidents after the National Assembly approved by one vote a resolution to dej pose President Enrique jJiminez and named Sem>r Ob&rro as new President. Senor Jlminez. however, was still in the presidential palace and counting on popular support, while Senor Oaarro tried
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    • 54 8 'REPUBLIC OF INDIA'— FORECAST SIR Ivan MacKay. Australian High Commissioner to India, said in Melbourne yesterday that India might decide to remain within the British Commonwealth as aj republic. He said that while antiBritish feeling once reached great heights among the AllIndia Congress Party, there were new indications that this
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    • 99 8 SHANGHAI. Tuesday THE American owned j Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury, in an editorial, I declared that if the proposed revision of China's law of publication were adopted by the Legislative Yuan, freedom of speech would "almost be non-existant in China The paper enumerated provisions of the
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    • 88 8 A USTRALIA BACKS BILL ON CITIZENS rpHE Australian Prime Minister M x has authorised the Brn H J I James C huter Ede, to it h British GoTernme. Unnam^^iM drafted— without the Hous/if Bui iS| on citizenship: the i Dr pf rds •nS 1 British subject to Hi Australian Bill
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